Thanks once again for your advice. I made two variants of the makefile that you provided, as follows: 1) changed the following # installed libmesh location of libmesh-config script libmesh_config := /home/flexwork/Documents/repos/libmesh/contrib/bin/libmesh-config and then ran make miscellaneous_ex11
and the output was: miscellaneous_ex11.cc:38:10: fatal error: libmesh/libmesh.h: No such file or directory 38 | #include "libmesh/libmesh.h" | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. 2) changed the following # installed libmesh location of libmesh-config script libmesh_config := /usr/local and then ran make miscellaneous_ex11 and the output was: /bin/sh: 1: /usr/local: Permission denied /bin/sh: 1: /usr/local: Permission denied /bin/sh: 1: /usr/local: Permission denied /bin/sh: 1: /usr/local: Permission denied /bin/sh: 1: /usr/local: Permission denied Compiling miscellaneous_ex11.cc make: miscellaneous_ex11.cc: Command not found make: *** [Makefile:35: miscellaneous_ex11] Error 127 For both cases i changed the extension of the copied miscellaneous_ex11.C to miscellaneous_ex11.cc . Is there something else that i can try? Is it right to conclude that /home/flexwork/Documents/repos/libmesh/contrib/bin is the installation directory? _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users